Professor Ignacio Guerrero's Blog

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Co-author of East of Tiffany's, 13 short stories of a Latino immigrant's success in USA; a journey from West Harlem to Sutton Place and Park Avenue. Check out the reviews in Amazon.com and in Barnes and Noble.

Next to Cervantes, Benito Perez Galdos is the most beloved Spanish writer of all times.

Lazarillo of Tormes - my translation $0.99
Read it in contemporary English -- No Thous, Thees, or King James' Bible language. Transliterated into easy language for enjoyable reading pleasure.
Because The Lazarillo of Tormes pointed a new direction, European and American literature benefited with titles that today are considered classics:
Cervantes’ Rinconete and Cortadillo; Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders, Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones and Joseph Andrews; Tobias Smollett’s Roderick Random, and Peregrine Pickle; Voltaire’s Candide; Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield. And many others to include American works ranging from Mark Twain to Saul Bellow.

Dehumanization of Art by Ortega y Gasset - my translation $0.99
The Dehumanization of Art— is now a constant in music, literature, aesthetics, and philosophy, having come
to mean that in post-modern times human-shaped mimesis (representation of the human) is irrelevant to art.
According to Ortega, the arts don't have to tell a human story; art should deal with its own forms—and not with the human form.

Sentence Openers
How writers open their sentences makes prose agile, interesting, and athletic. This e-book teaches how to
break the pattern Subject-verb-object--and discard openings that begin with nouns, articles, and pronouns.

East of Tiffany's - bestseller $5
With the city as its backdrop "East of Tiffany's" is filled with earnest tales of love, loss, faith, success and morality.
While business terminology is interwoven throughout these short stories, it's not business lessons that I
take away with me, but life lessons. The circumstances and the characters' profound humanity are relatable despite their zip code .
"Luke, Postmodern Man" offers a new vista into faith, suffering, and love of neighbor.
Way after you read this book you'll find yourself thinking about the various characters throughout the series of
stories and will find solace in their unwavering faith. The narrators' ability to reflect on their hardships with such serenity is inspiring.

My writing was as flat as a sidewalk. And then I downloaded ...

After I purchased Mary's e-book I started to get 'A's in my essays and term papers! Every page is filled with great writing tips,
training lessons, and wonderful useful writing skills! Not only do I write essays for college, but also short stories!

If you read Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Dickens, and Trollope you will realize that Guerrero's English is that good. If you are tired of Hemingway, Mailer, Updike, DeLillo, Chabon and other mediocre writers you will find "The Poison Pill" a great reading. In this humble, unassuming book you'll find rhetorical figures that make you think and lots of literary allusions. Oh, yes! Intelligent puzzles, too, a la Borges. It has been a long time since I read a book so well written. Where was Guerrero all these years?